Shelf cabinet



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Applicationfiled oetober 12,1922; Serial No: 594,008. Renewed Eebruary Z 1924.

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Be it known that I, ENOOHOHNSTRAND, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Moliawlnin the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shelf Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cabinets provided with adjustable shelves or partitions usually disposed in horizontal planes and particularly adapted for supporting sheet material such as stacked sheets of paper, blank forms, etc.

Objects of the invention are to provide supports for the shelves which may be readily applied, which permit any desired spacing of the shelves, which define the shelf spaces and guide the shelves thereinto, which serve as end stops for the material stacked upon the shelves, and in general to improve prior devices of the class described.

The invention is illustrated in the accom= panying drawing in which 2- Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a cabinet embodying the featuresof the invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed View of a portion of the left-hand side of the cabinet shown in Fig. 1.

The embodiment of the invention chosen for the purpose of illustration comprises a cabinet having a base A, sides B and C, and top D. Attached to sides B and C are guide strips E for a vertically slidable door F of the flexible roll type having handles G for operating the same. The cabinet is provided with adjustable shelves H, which may be formed of sheet metal, the shelves being supported at their ends by supports I fas tened to the upright sides B and C of the cabinet and to a central partition J.

The supporting brackets I for shelves H consist of angular strips preferably Z shaped in cross section, the web portion 3 of the brackets I being substantially at right angles to the parallel flanges A and 5 of the brackets. One flange 4; serves as a means for attaching the strip brackets I to the upright portions of the cabinet, being secured thereto in any suitable manner as by welding, if the cabinet is a metal one or by screws or nails if the cabinet is of wood. The web 3 of brackets I serves as the end support for shelves H.- The downturned lip or flange 5, which is spaced from the adjacent upright portion of the cabinet and angularly disposed relative to-the'we-b, 3, cooperates in the manner of a guide with the web 3 of the next lower bracket strip to define the space for the shelf. Since this lip or flange 5 extends almost to the flange of the next lower bracket it serves as an end stop for loose sheet material such as K (Fig. 2) stacked upon shelves H to prevent such material from sliding or working into the shelf spaces between the brackets, so that the stacked material is maintained in orderly arrangement. The inner flange 4 which is fastened to the cabinet may also serve as an end abutment and guide for the end edges of shelves H as shown.

From the above it will be apparent that the improved end supports for adjustable shelves in cabinets of the type disclosed may be arranged to give any desired spacing for the shelves, that these end brackets being of strip form and angular in cross-section are rigid and efficient supports for the entire end of each shelf, that the down-turned lip or flange of these angular supports keep the stacked material in proper position, and that the vertical flanged portions of the brackets serve as guides in keeping the shelves in place, the flanges spaced from the uprights cooperating with the supporting webs of adjacent brackets to define the shelf spaces.

I claim:

1. A cabinet having adjustable shelves and opposed series of guide brackets forming spaces into which said shelves may be slid, said brackets having angularly disposed flanges on the inner edges thereof arranged to cooperate with the next adjacent brackets to define the shelf spaces.

2. A cabinet provided with a series of horizontal guide spaces adapted to receive removable shelves, said spaces being formed by opposed series of angle strips attached to the upright portions of said cabinet, said strips having vertical portions spaced from the cabinet walls to cooperate with adjacent strips to define said spaces and also to serve as stops for articles or sheet material stacked on said shelves.

3. A cabinet having a spaced series of horizontal supports, and removable shelves adapted to be positioned upon said supports,

7 said supports being provided at their inner edges With downturned flanges, the flanges of each support cooperating with the sup ports immediately therebelovv to form guides for said shelves and to position sheet material stacked on the shelves.

4:. A cabinet having vertically adjustable shelves and opposed series of end supports for said shelves attached to upright portions of the cabinet, each of said supports comprising a horizontal portion on which a shelf is adapted to rest and angular flanges at opposed edges of said portion, one of said flanges serving as a means of attachment to 15 the cabinet and the other flange serving with the support next beloW to define the shelf space.

5. A cabinet having horizontally disposed vertically adjustable shelves, and opposed series of supporting strips for said shelves, 20

flange as a guide for the next adjacent shelf 25 therebeneath.

Signed by me at Ilion, N. Y., this sixth day of October 1922.

ENOOH OHNSTRAND. 

